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Chapter 2: Using the Adapter’s Configuration Utility
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The key lengths for an ASCII key are as follows:
– A key length of 64 bits requires 5 ASCII characters.
– A key length of 128 bits requires 13 ASCII
characters.
– A key length of 152 bits requires 16 ASCII
characters.
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The wireless client and access point can use different keys to
encode the network traffic that they each send. However, both keys
must be entered on both devices and the keys must occupy the
same positions in the encryption key tables (Key 1, Key 2, etc.) on
the devices.
6. Select Default Key and from the pull-down menu select the key that
the wireless adapter should use to encryption its outgoing traffic. If in
Step 5 you selected Share Key, the default key is also used by the
client when authenticating itself to the access point.
Note
You must assign the profile an IP address. To set the IP address for
the profile now, go to step 5 in “Configuring the IP Address” on
page 47. To set the IP address at another time, complete this
procedure.
7. Click OK to close the Wireless Network Properties window.
The Preferred WLANs section of the Configuration tab should now
include a new Preferred WLAN for the network.
8. In the main window of the configuration utility, click Apply .
This completes the procedure for creating a Preferred WLAN profile
with WEP security.
WPA/WPA2-
PSK Security
To configure the Wireless Network Properties window for Wi-Fi Protected
Access (WPA) Preshared Key (PSK) or WPA2-PSK security, do the
following:
1. Click the Wireless network name (SSID) field and enter the name of
the network. The name is case sensitive.
2. Click Authentication Mode and select either WPA-PSK or WPA2-
PSK from the pull-down menu.
Note
Do not select WPS2-PSK unless the wireless access point features
WPA2.